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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Horace

What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People

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